Rafael Caro Quintero was busted by Mexican legislation enforcement Friday.
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A fugitive Mexican drug lord was busted Friday to face extradition within the infamous 1985 torture and homicide of an undercover US Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
Rafael Caro Quintero, a founding father of the once-powerful Guadalajara Cartel, was nabbed by Mexican authorities within the northern state of Chihuahua, legislation enforcement sources confirmed with The Publish.
Caro Quintero, who’s believed to be between 59 and 69, served 28 years of a 40-year sentence in Mexico for the grisly killing of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena earlier than being freed in 2013 on a technicality involving the jurisdiction of the court docket wherein he was convicted.
The US — which has known as Caro-Quintero the “mastermind” behind Camarena’s slaying — requested his extradition days after he was sprung from the “Puente Grande” jail in Guadalajara and put a bounty on his head that ultimately reached $20 million.
He was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wished Fugitives record in 2018, with a poster warning that he “SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.”
Final yr, Caro Quintero — who’s denied ordering Camarena’s demise — misplaced a closing attraction to dam his extradition to face prosecution within the US.
His seize got here days after President Biden met with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on the White Home.
Camarena was kidnapped in Guadalajara on Feb. 7, 1985, three weeks earlier than he was set to be reassigned due to the hazards he confronted as an undercover operative.
His badly crushed physique was discovered a month later.
The tragic occasions are recounted within the first season of the Netflix sequence “Narcos: Mexico,” with Camarena portrayed by actor Michael Pena and Caro Quintero by Tenoch Huerta.
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